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by NH State Senator Harold French |
The proposed state budget created by House and Senate Democrats and vetoed by Governor Sununu increases taxes. It increases spending by an unsustainable 13.2 percent. And it makes promises to local taxpayers that it cannot keep.
Authorizing spending is not the same thing as making a budget. If you don’t recognize a responsibility to not spend more than you take in, it is not a budget. The United States has not had a budget in more than a decade. The federal government is behaving like a teenager with a checkbook. It … Read more
by Greg Moore | In the South, you often hear the phrase, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” It’s too bad that idiom hasn’t become more popular in New Hampshire, because our state Legislature seems intent on breaking our vibrant, robust economy and instead throwing the car that’s going 100 mph in reverse. Five … Read more
by NH GOP | NHGOP Chairman Stephen Stepanek released the following statement regarding the ad: “New Hampshire Democrats proposed a budget that raised taxes, included bloated spending, and contained a massive structural deficit of over $100 million. Democrats are fighting for a budget that destroys the New Hampshire Advantage while Governor Chris Sununu continues to … Read more
by Grover Norquist | Democrat Budget Would Have Raised Taxes on Businesses and Vapers. New Hampshire has long been thought of as a low tax state, governed frugally and therefore a strong competitor among the 50 states to attract job-creating investment, talent, and young families. Over time, “what everyone knows” can cease to be quite … Read more
If you thought public education was expensive and increasingly useless, Nashua is prepared to double down on that. At tonight’s School Board meeting, they will “discuss” adding 3 million a year to the budget for Social Emotional Learning.
Heh!
Yesterday, the NHGOP released a new ad highlighting the New Hampshire Democrat’s tax-increasing, unbalanced budget. The ad, titled “The Democrats’ Terrible Budget,” aired on WMUR yesterday and will appear on television throughout the coming weeks. The ad will also be carried on digital platforms.
So Governor Sununu vetoed the budget passed by the Democrat legislature, which I often refer to as the #SocialistBudget: It would have been nice if Sununu had also given as a reason for the veto that the #SocialistBudget would force taxpayers to pay for abortions, but I suppose that wouldn’t be “woke” and Team-Sununu is … Read more
by Rep. Dave Testerman (Hill & Franklin) | With the N.H. legislative session over for the summer, I am taking time to write on current issues. The Legislature left a large conundrum on the table when it passed an irresponsible budget that the governor had to veto. Hopefully, we will be able to come to … Read more
We learned that even when the House and Senate sit down together in Committees of Conference to settle their disagreements on really bad legislation that the resulting legislation can still be really bad legislation, especially when it comes to our State’s Budget. Proof that sometimes more than 2 heads are not better than one. We … Read more
Back on April 1st, we reported on a court ruling that affirmed Ohio’s right to deny funding to “pregnancy centers” that fund abortion. State Budget writers went to work to ensure actual ‘family planning’ centers were adequately funded.
By Drew Cline State budgets are like the Grinch’s Santa sack. They’re huge, unwieldy, and overstuffed with giveaways and surprises. Their contents are a mystery to anyone who doesn’t have hours to crawl inside and unwrap every little package, which is pretty much every normal person. We’re not normal (we like reading budgets), so we’ve done … Read more
The budget to be voted on by the New Hampshire House and Senate on Thursday, June 27, specifically HB 2, would coerce every New Hampshire taxpayer into paying for abortions directly. Any claim to the contrary comes from people who either haven’t read HB 2 or are deliberately lying about it. Two people have forwarded … Read more
This won’t surprise too many people, but Democrats are lying about their budget. The party line is that they froze business taxes and removed future tax cuts. Not true. The Democrat Budget raises taxes for 2019.
Rumor has it the current governor has a goal in mind. He means to veto more useless partisan legislation than any governor before him. Especially political stuff. “[M]ost of those will get vetoed, absolutely.”
New Hampshire Democrats have taken a cue from their Masters in DC. They are cramming things into the budget. Like a repeal on the state’s use of taxpayer dollars for abortion services.
Press Release | CONCORD – House Republican Leader Dick Hinch (R-Merrimack) issued a statement at the conclusion of Wednesday’s budget bill committee of conference meeting. “You may hear Democrats championing this budget as some sort of breakthrough, but let me tell you, it is rife with policy and gimmicks that put New Hampshire on a … Read more
I can’t even recall how much garbage the Democrats in the legislature have crammed into the budget – that has nothing to do with a budget. But I guess it wasn’t enough.
Federal spending this year is already more than $3 trillion. That’s ignorant. Congress is drunk on spending. 2019 is setting yet another new record for out of control spending. Guess what… Congress is once again coming up on an appropriations deal impasse. Surprise, surprise, surprise! Let the shutdown hysteria begin. We are entering the hyperbole … Read more